I'm really sorry about the term "luminaries", used in a hurry and with English as my second language. You may call them "brilliant engineers", "world class engineers", or just "smart guys". Please choose the one that is less disturbing to you. In the same fashion, what I called "hunch" you may better call it "hypothesis".
Audio Engineering Society, probably the world's most important organization in audio engineering, in almost 75 years of history has awarded 35 people with their Gold Medal Award. You may know some names among them: Georg Neumann, Willi Studer, Claude Shannon, Ray Dolby, Floyd Toole, Rudy Van Gelder. Among them it is also the name of Michael Gerzon, the "father" of most of the foundational patents regarding MQA, and I believe also postumely named in the MQA patent. He was a recognized genius at his time, that sadly died at the age of 50 because of a health condition.
The buddy of Gerzon was Peter Craven (the one that people here seems to believe has lost every remaining neuron in his head, with what surely must be a kind of contagious disease), and with whom he co-authored most of those patents. Both were the main core of the audio engineering department of Oxford University, one of the world's most renowned research institutions in audio.
The one in the center of this photo of the early 70's is Ray Dolby (*), surrounded by Craven and Gerzon in their twenties, already famous for their achievements in audio research. Dolby went to Oxford to discuss with them his patents about its surround sound systems, of which Gerzon and Craven would have been participants if the British government wouldn't have cut research funds at that time. By that time they had already made key research about noise shaping, digital systems analysis, and developed the ambisonics field recording technology and invented the first ambisonics microphone.
(*): another excuse: I called him "Thomas" instead of "Ray" in a previous post.
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I think most concede that these are smart people and MQA is in some ways brilliant.
It does implement cripple-ware, it can degrade audio, it makes proprietary what was open, and refuses to provide the access necessary to validate its claims surrounding temporal blurring.
So, let's say I am the best shot in the world, no one can match me. Does that make me good, I suppose it depends on what I am shooting at.
N'est pas?
Many well respected people question what MQA is shooting at
- Rich
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